Tetramorium sahlbergi Forel
Type location Egypt (Tetramorium caespitum L. r.
punicum Sm. v. sahlbergi n. v., Forel,1913d: 413,
worker; Finzi, 1936: 182, worker & queen; raised to species
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 56) collected in Cairo, Heluan
[Helwan], and Beirut.
Forel's (1913d) description is at
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Finzi's (1936) description is at
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Egypt records - in HNS as
Tetramorium
punicum var. sahlbergi.
Sharaf list - Material examined: Wadi El-Arbaein, St.Catherine
(South Sinai), 3.iv.1998 (4); Abuzabal (Qalyubiya), xii.2002 (1);
Damietta, 20.viii.2003 (16); Sallant (El-Daqahliya, Egypt),
6.vii.2003 (16); Abuzabal (Qalyubiya), 18.vi.2002 (6); Sallant
(El-Daqahliya, Egypt), 19.viii.2003 (6) (SHC); Abu-Mina, 8.iv.1954
(14); Wadi Digla (Cairo), 2.iii.1956 (1) (ASUC).
Mohamad thesis (1979) had - Abu Mena, 8.vi.1954; Wadi Degla
(Helwan), 2.iii.1956; El-Hawawish, 5.ii.1975; Safaga (Red Sea),
26.ii.1975; El-Zagazig (Nile Delta), 15.vii.1975; Damietta,
15.viii.1975; Wadi El-Natroun (Western desert), 15.x.1978; Mariut,
16x.1975; Siwa oasis (Western desert), 10.iv.1976 (Coll.Ain.)
The photomontage is of specimens from Egypt, taken by Mostafa
Sharaf. |
